Tiruvalluvar

“ You ask, What is the good and perfect way?
'Tis path of him who studies nought to slay.
Good path is that which considers how it may avoid killing any creature.
Kural - 325
Of those who 'being' dread, and all renounce, the chief are they,
Who dreading crime of slaughter, study nought to slay.
Of all those who, fearing the permanence of earthly births, have abandoned desire, he is the chief who, fearing (the guilt of) murder, considers how he may avoid the destruction of life. ”